Comparison Trap

Society celebrates competition in academics, sports, careers and even beauty. It’s challenging to make our emotional well-being independent from these external measurements but, if we want inner peace, we have to. Sustained well-being necessitates having an internal, independent metric for personal worth. Until we accept ourselves deeply, no amount of accolades from the outside will yield anything more than an ephemeral uplift. It is far more sustainable to feel any feelings of unworthiness as sensations in our bodies, allow them to rise and fade away and then notice that the awareness that remains through it all is…